Object to be checked for authenticity and a method for manufacturing the same

• US 5,756,220 A
• Filed: 07/29/1996
• Issued: 05/26/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NHK Spring Company Limited
• Original Assignee: NHK Spring Company Limited
• Inventors: Sugahara, Tsugutaka, Hoshino, Hidekazu, Takeuchi, Itsuo, Yoda, Masumi, Komiya, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): RESAN, STEVAN A
• Application Number:
  US08/688,132
• Time in Patent Office: 666 Days
• Field of Search: 428/227, 428/537.5, 428/694 R, 428/900, 428/916, 235/493, 360/2, 283/82, 283/904
• US Class Current: 428/537.5
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06196 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/083 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/086 with markings consisting of randomly placed or oriented elements, the randomness of the elements being useable for generating a unique identifying signature of the record carrier, e.g. randomly placed magnetic fibers or magnetic particles in the body of a credit card
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/12 the marking being sensed by magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/14 the marking being sensed by radiation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/904 Credit card
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/90 Magnetic feature
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/916 Fraud or tamper detecting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31993 Of paper

Abstract

A large number of magnetic polymer elements are distributed at random in a base material of a object to be checked. Each magnetic polymer element includes an element main body formed of a high-molecular material, such as an acrylic resin, and magnetic metal powder contained therein. The base material is formed mainly of paper, and the magnetic polymer elements are incorporated together with wood pulp fibers in the base material. The elements and the fibers are tangled with one another in three dimensions. Indication data including figures, symbols, etc., such as post position numbers and bet numbers on betting tickets for publicly-managed gambling, are printed on the object. The indication data, along with a proper output signal obtained in accordance with the state of distribution of the magnetic polymer elements, are enciphered according to specific rules for enciphering, and are recorded in a code indicator section by means of a recording medium, such as a magnetic stripe which is magnetically readable or a bar code which is optically readable.

Claims

1. An object to be checked for authenticity, comprising:

a base material formed of paper containing a plurality of wood pulp fibers;

a plurality of fibrous magnetic polymer elements incorporated in the base material, together with the wood pulp fibers, each of the elements including an element main body formed of an acrylic resin and magnetic metal powder contained therein;

the wood pulp fibers and the magnetic polymer elements being tangled with one another in three dimensions;

a scanning region for checking the object for authenticity; and

a code indicator section for storing encoded information corresponding to an output obtained in accordance with the distribution of the magnetic polymer elements in the scanning region, said region and said section being located in said base material.

2. The object according to claim 1, wherein said code indicator section includes a magnetically readable medium for recording data.

3. The object according to claim 1, wherein said code indicator section includes an optically readable medium for recording data.

4. The object according to claim 1, wherein said base material has card base members of paper or a synthetic resin stacked thereon.

5. The object according to claim 1, wherein said base material includes opposite surfaces which are covered by card base members of paper or a synthetic resin.

6. The object according to claim 4, wherein said card base members are covered by films of a synthetic resin which are transparent to visible light.

7. The object according to claim 1, wherein said base material is covered by card base members of a (transparent) synthetic resin which are transparent to visible light and which also serve as a protective layer.

8. The object according to claim 1, wherein said base material includes opposite surfaces and has a magnetic layer on at least one of the opposite surfaces thereof.

9. The object according to claim 8, wherein a nonmagnetic intermediate layer formed of a nonmagnetic material is interposed between said base material and said magnetic layer.